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St Andrew

St Andrew

Ashby Puerorum

Lincolnshire

C13, C15, restored mid C19, repaired 1930.

Architectural Features

C15 tower with clasping buttresses and set on a chamfered plinth with moulded band over.

Parapet with single corner gargoyles and finials,of 3 stages to the west side and 2 to the north and south sides with bands.

Above is a single arched restored C15 window with 3 lights, panel tracery, hood mould and label stops.

The buttressed north wall with blocked pointed chamfered arched doorway and hood mould. to the left is a single C15 segmental pointed arched window with 3 lights, cusped panel tracery and hood mould.

Diagonal buttressed east chancel with single C15 arched 3 light window with panel tracery, hood mould and label stops.

The south chancel has a single C15 2 light window with cusped tracery under a flat arch, hood mould and label stops.

The south nave with single C15 arched 3 light window with cusped panel tracery, hood mould and human head label stops.

2 bay C13 nave arcade with circular pier and octagonal east respond, moulded capitals and double chamfered arches.

Tall C15 double chamfered tower arch, the inner order supported on octagonal responds with moulded capitals, sides of the responds with concave moulding.

15th century octagonal font in St.Andrew's church

C15 octagonal ashlar font.

15th century octagonal font in St.Andrew's church

© Richard Croft

C17 altar rails, the large balusters with some fluted moulding to the top.

Under the altar is a C14 incised floor slab to a priest, the figure, under a canopy, originally part brass.

On the south nave wall are brasses of a male and female figure with further C13 brasses of shields, smaller figures

Set on the south nave wall is a group of seven brasses.  These belong to Richard Lytleburye a knight from ‘Stanesbye’ and his wife Elizabeth who died in 1521 and 1523 respectively.  It also shows their ten children Humphrey, Thomas, William, John, Robert, Edmund, Elizabeth, Jane, Anne and Mary, together with the two coats of arms.

inscription to Richard Lytleburye, his wife and family, 1521 and 1523.

Set on the south nave wall is a group of seven brasses. These belong to Richard Lytleburye a knight from ‘Stanesbye’ and his wife Elizabeth who died in 1521 and 1523 respectively. It also shows their ten children Humphrey, Thomas, William, John, Robert, Edmund, Elizabeth, Jane, Anne and Mary, together with the two coats of arms.

© J.Hannan-Briggs

There is a further C16 brass of a knight in armour.